• usrsbin@kbin.social
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    Open-source preserves these freedoms. Source-available is the term for software that doesn’t respect user freedoms, but allows to access the source code.

    • TheInsane42@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Indeed, most open source software is available under licenses like GPL, which enforces the preservation of those freedoms.

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      Open Source and source-available mean the same thing, a different thing than Free Software.